BitShares Blockchain Supports On-Chain Peer to Peer Bartering

Why barter?

Say someone has an asset on the Bitshares Blockchain that you want, such as an NFT, but it's in their portfolio/inventory not on the open market.

how would you buy it?

If their Bitshares Blockchain account name isn't associated with an user on telegram/matrix/hive, then your only outreach option is to send them a transaction with a memo explaining your desired market trade, with the hopes they read it and decide to place it on the open market.

Alternatively, say two users in an on-chain game decide to trade game items between themselves in an in-game safe zone (like a marketplace), you would use this bartering mechanism to enable peer to peer trading on-chain.

How do you barter on Bitshares Blockchain?

You need to specify the other participant in the bartering exchange, alongside the trade contents and justification, such as:

So I've been able to propose a peer to peer trade between myself and another Blockchain participant, without a middleman system between us introducing risk.

Now, say part of the bartering exchange includes an activity, like creating content, you can include an escrow participant who will securely hold my payment funds, and upon verifying the creation of the negotiated content will release the barter fund contents to peer 2.

The escrow participant in this example was the bitshares committee, however in an on-chain game this could be set as the auction house auctioneer if within the bounds of a safe zone.

How much does it cost to barter?

Some observations from the above fee table

• If Peer 2 rejects the barter exchange they pay no fees
• If Peer 2 wants to propose alternative barter exchange terms then they will become Peer 1 in a new barter exchange.
• If the escrow agent is not consulted prior to being selected as escrow, eg like picking the Bitshares Blockchain committee to oversee an ingame item trade, they may ignore/reject the barter due to the imposed cost of fees. Contact an escrow agent prior to selecting them as peer 3.
• Escrow agents fees will need to be covered by either Peer 1 and/or Peer 2. Due to this, non-escrow P2P bartering is the entirely unbiased option.
• Since new barter proposals are expensive, establishing communications via initial memo for further trade negotiations would save participants fees.
• It's worth purchasing a life-time membership on the Bitshares Blockchain to reduce the cost of on-chain P2P bartering trade exchanges.

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